Today Dad, Mum and I flew from Auckland to Queenstown… the flight was epic! The scenery flying between the mountains and descending to Queenstown airport was phenomenal! I saw many glacial rivers and a lake or two… it was exciting! I wish I had my camera out! My only complaint was that the flight was totally packed out and I was sitting with 2 rather large people and that left me little breathing space… well it was a domestic flight so it wasn’t that bad! Happy birthday Jasmine Yap!! Hope you’ve had a good one!

Queenstown is a very scenic town, its set on the banks of this beautiful lake with clear blue water, guarded by mountains all round. The sky was blue when we landed, and the wind was strong and cold, I later learned that it blows up from Antartica, which explains the coldness. The scenery was lovely at the airport but it got even better as we arrived in central Queenstown and drove up to the heritage, where we were going to stay. The wind was extremely strong wind, which formed some big waves and huge whitecaps. The mountains were forcing the moving air through a channel, which I guess caused the strong wind.

Shopped today at Cream, which sells little funky items to put around home. Mum and dad bought various items for the kitchen and a mobile, I bought some monkey hangers so I can hang my clothes on my door in case I’m picking out clothes or something. I think I’ve got a thing for monkeys, about a year ago I bought grandpa a tie with monkeys on it, from tie rack in the UK.

Apparently it rained this morning and we’re real lucky that the weather’s cleared up. I would imagine Queenstown to be a rather miserable place when it’s raining! The sailing scene in Queenstown seems to be small keelboats and larger, no dinghies. Some locals had a little mini sailing race on the lake. One team even picked up their third crew member off the dock an hour before the race… I cringed at some of the mistakes that were being made but it was all in good fun and interesting to watch as I’ve only once watched a race live and was quite new to racing then. It was an enriching experience to watch the race and not be racing in it… However, I wish I was sailing my laser radial then… could be blasting off-wind real quick, which is probably one of my favourite things to do.

We may even stay an extra night at heritage Queenstown- highly recommend it to anyone, the view from the lake wing is fantastic, but it’s a bit cold now even in early summer, there’s skiing during winter! Dinner at the hotel was lovely, I had salmon, and I can’t remember what mum and dad had.


Going fishing tomorrow again, with John’s friend, Ron Stewart… I can’t wait!!